meteoroid

Example Sentences

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A recently published study reports that shaking from moonquakes, rather than impacts from meteoroids, was the main force behind the shifting terrain in the Taurus-Littrow valley, the site where Apollo 17 astronauts landed in 1972.

From Science Daily

And meteorites are meteoroids that survive their journey through the atmosphere and hits the ground.

From BBC

Unusually, its trajectory was caught on several cameras in the region used to track meteoroids.

From New York Times

A Russian investigation concluded that those leaks likely resulted from hits by tiny meteoroids, not manufacturing flaws.

From Seattle Times

We wandered over to the first area—Space Is Dangerous—and watched a video of a hole being blown through a thick metal plate by a simulated meteoroid.

From Literature